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It’s important to note that even under the old CBA, these “dollar” contracts were really “monopoly dollars”. If these monopoly dollars totalled more than 57% of the revenues the league collected, the players would not be “made whole”.

So, why would the players necessarily be made whole under a new CBA where the players get 50%? Just because they signed a contract that went years beyond the previous CBA?

At the same time, if the teams don’t honor those contracts outside the original CBA years, then those contracts should therefore be declared null and void. That is, the teams have a choice: “make whole” on the contracts (out of their own pockets, not the players), or release the players from their contract altogether. The player has the option to either accept being released from their contract, or accept that they won’t be made whole.

"It's disappointing. If you can't afford to (sign contracts) then you shouldn't do it," Suter said. "(Leipold) signed us to contracts. At the time he said everything was fine. Yeah, it's disappointing. A couple months before, everything is fine, and now they want to take money out of our contracts that we already signed."

As part of their identical contracts, both Suter and Parise received $10 million signing bonuses that were protected from the lockout.

It's amazing that the players are able to play the naive card so well when every major contract signed over the past year has included major signing bonuses as a hedge against contract rollbacks under the upcoming CBA.

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